Nick Grinde

Nick Grinde
Born	January 12, 1893(1893-01-12) Madison, Wisconsin
Died	June 19, 1979(1979-06-19) (aged 86) Los Angeles, California
Other names	Harry Grinde Nicholas Grinde Nicholas Grindé Nick Grindé
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1928–1945

Nick Grindé (January 12, 1893 – June 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945.

Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Grinde graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He became a Hollywood film writer and director in the late 1920s, and was often assigned to familiarize Broadway stage directors with the techniques of film making. As a director, he is considered one of American cinema's early B film specialists.

Throughout his career, Grinde was a popular writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show business and film making in early Hollywood. Prime examples include "Pictures for Peanuts" (Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 29, 1945), a humorous B picture "how-to," and "Where's Vaudeville At?" (Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 11, 1930).

Grinde died in Los Angeles, California in 1979 at the age of 86. In the mid 1930s, he had been married to actress Marie Wilson. Later, he married Korean-American actress Hazel Shon.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences houses the Nick Grinde Papers in its Special Collections.

Selected filmography

• The Divorcee (1930 - writer)
• Good News (1930)
• This Modern Age (1931)
• Menu (1933)
• Babes in Toyland (1934 - writer), starring Laurel and Hardy
• How to Sleep (1935)
• Love Is on the Air (1937)
• Million Dollar Legs (1939)
• The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
• The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
• Before I Hang (1940)
• Hitler - Dead or Alive (1942)

External links

• Nick Grinde at the Internet Movie Database
• Nick Grinde at AllRovi

Persondata
Name	Grinde, Nick
Alternative names
Short description	Film director, Screenwriter
Date of birth	1893-1-12
Place of birth	Madison, Wisconsin
Date of death	1979-6-19
Place of death	Los Angeles, California